Brush



(Model.)

J. B. HALBERT.

Brush.

No. 240,410. Patented April 19,1881.

NIFI'ERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,D

JOHN B. HALBERT, OF LONGWOOD, FLORIDA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO E. W.HENCK AND LEMUEL POPE,

OF SAME PLACE; SAID HENOK AND POPE ASSIGNORS OF ONE-FOURTH OF THEIRRIGHT TO GEO. B. HODGE,

OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,410, dated April19, 1881.

Application led March 19, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. HALBERT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Longwood, in the county of Orange and State of Florida, haveinvented or discovered a new and useful Improvement in the Art ofMakingBrushes, whereby I am enabled to produce a new and useful article ofmanufacture, of which the following is a specication.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a brush constructedaccording to my invention.

Figure l is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal verticalsectional view.

I take the green palmetto-root, which is cut into the desired length andshape, out of which the brush is formed, with the grain of the rootruiming vertical, so that the bers thereof will form a material andanswer the purpose of bristles of a brush. The pith or fibrous portionof the roots is then removed by being hammered out at one end of theblock to a greater or less distance, which leaves the brous portion A ofthe root projecting from the remaining portion, B, of the block ofsufficient stiffness and thickly studded or set to form the tuft of thebrush. The stiffness of the tutt or bristle of projecting bers formingthe brush properis determined by the length ofthe berprojections. Thegreater the distance the pith is removed from the block the longer andsofter will be the brush.

The ber of the palnletto-root makes a su-y perior, tough, elastic brush,and has superior merit over any material now in use.

(Model.)

The backingofthe brush is formed of the root itself, and may be made ofany desired shape or form and attached to any of the well-knownbrush-handles now in use.

The object of my invention is to make from the palmetto-root brushes ofall kinds and adapted to the various uses known to theart.

A brush has heretofore been constructed from the bark of bass-woodreduced to a ber at one end, several pieces of such wood being bound andheld together by a ferrulc, in which is tted a handle; but a brushconstructed in this manner does notpossess the peculiar characteristicsof a brush constructed according to my invention, and is not claimed byme.

What I claim as my invention isl. The process of making a brush from thepalmetto root by cutting the same into blocks of the desired shape andremoving the pith surrounding the ber from one portion of the block, soas to leave projecting bers to form the tuft of the brush.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a brush made from a palmetto-root inwhich the pith is removed from the ber in a portion of the block, whichber forms the tuft of the brush.

Inltestimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JNO. B. HALBERT.

Witnesses: g

EDGAR HARRISON, H. H. SCARLETT.

